The death of a Black motorist after a beating by five Black Memphis police officers has triggered national outrage over police brutality and systemic racism with the U.S. criminal justice system.
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Democrats have ridden the West to presidential electoral success since 1992, reversing their poor performances from the 1950s through the 1980s.
Protests over police violence and white supremacy have erupted in almost 600 US cities. A historian of black social movements says what’s happened after George Floyd’s death is unprecedented.
After two more fatal shootings by police of black men this week, we republish one legal scholar’s argument that what needs addressing is the police’s culture of masculinity.
Recent social unrest across the country protesting the police shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson and the police chokehold death of Eric Garner in New York has reopened wounds and revealed deeply…
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Associate Professor, Contemporary Histories Research Group, Deakin University
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Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas Christian University
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Professor of Law, Suffolk University
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Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College
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Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Clinical Instructor of Criminal Justice and Criminology, Georgia State University
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Chair, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, Associate Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, History and American Culture, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor in Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
